Comparative Literature with Film Studies

Currently, students study the following core modules. If there are options available the current choices are also shown. King's reviews its optional modules on a regular basis, in order to continue to offer innovative and exciting programmes and this list is therefore subject to change. Please check here for updates, or contact the Department(s) for further advice. You will take Comparative Literature core and optional courses and two Film Studies modules each year.

You will take the core modules plus up to two options in Comparative Literature.

Introduction to Comparative Literature:

• Methods 
• The Writer in the Text 
• Introduction to Comparative Literature: Theories 
• Forms of Shorter Narrative 
• Introduction to Film Studies: Forms 
• Introduction to Film Studies: Contexts

Comparative Literature:

• The Novel in 18th-century Europe 
• Introduction to Modern Greek Poetry 

Byzantine & Modern Greek Studies:

• Greece between East & West since 1800 

Classics:

• Greek Ethics
• Entertainment Cultures in Greece & Rome
• Persuasion & Rhetoric in Greece and Rome

English:

• Writing London 
• Introducing Literary Theories 
• Literature of the Renaissance in England

Portuguese & Brazilian Studies:

• Slavery, Society & Nation in Brazilian Literature

French:

• French Narrative Texts: an Introduction 
• Subjects & Selves: an Introduction to French Thought 
• Texts & Performance: an Introduction to French & Francophone Theatre & Film 

German:

• Medieval Germany: Language, Literature, & Society
• German Literature from Luther to Goethe 
• German Literature from Bchner to Grass 

Italian:

• The Heritage of Dante & the Renaissance (at Royal Holloway, University of London)
• The Age of the Risorgimento (at Royal Holloway, University of London)
• Fascist Italy (at Royal Holloway, University of London)

Spanish:

• Culture & Society in Imperial Spain 
• Latin American Visual Arts, 19th & 20th Century 
• Introduction to Modern Spanish Culture

Modules in Comparative Literature (core and optional courses), and two optional modules in Film Studies.

• Literature of Empire 
• Post-colonial Literature & Theory

Comparative Literature:

• Erotic Poetics from Sappho to Shakespeare
• Travel Writing

American Studies:

• Nineteenth-century American Literature 
• Gender & Identity: American Womens Autobiography 
• American Postwar Fiction

Byzantine & Modern Greek Studies:

• The Byzantine Saint
• Cavafy, Seferis, Ritsos 
• The Novels of Nikos Kazantzakis 

Classics:

• Greek Drama 
• Narrative Literature in Antiquity 
• The Roman Moral Tradition 

English:

• Subjects of Desire in Medieval Literature 
• Jacobean Theatre 
• Augustan Satire 
• Literature & Psychoanalysis 
• Modern Theatre 
• Australian Literature & Film 

French:

• Women & Love in the Renaissance 
• Literature & Enlightenment in the French 18th Century 
• Writing & Politics 
• Twentieth-century Women's Writing 
• Introduction to Francophone African Literatures 
• German:
• Heinrich Heine 
• Modernism & the Avant-Garde 
• Economic Thought & Literature 

Italian:

• Post-War Italian Cinema (at Royal Holloway, University of London)
• Opera & Operatic Culture in Italy (at Royal Holloway, University of London)
• Art & Literature in Renaissance Florence (at Royal Holloway, University of London)

Portuguese & Brazilian Studies:

• Portuguese Erotic Poetics: Medieval to Modern 

Spanish:

• After Franco: Films & Texts of the Transition 
• Perceptions of Modernity: Spanish America 1800-1920 
• Cervantes' Don Quijote 
• Goya & the Dream of Reason 

Film Studies:

• Asian Popular Cinemas
• Cinema & Spectatorship
• Film Authorship
• Film Forms (eg Documentary Film)
• The French New Wave
• Italian Cinema
• Spanish Cinema
• Topics in European Cinema or Topics in World Cinema

Your dissertation must involve a Film Studies element and you will take Comparative Literature & Film Studies options.

Dissertation

Comparative Literature:

• Erotic Poetics from Sappho to Shakespeare
• Travel Writing

American Studies:

• Nineteenth-century American Literature 
• Gender & Identity: American Womens Autobiography 
• American Postwar Fiction

Byzantine & Modern Greek Studies:

• The Byzantine Saint
• Cavafy, Seferis, Ritsos 
• The Novels of Nikos Kazantzakis 

Classics:

• Greek Drama 
• Narrative Literature in Antiquity 
• The Roman Moral Tradition 

English:

• Subjects of Desire in Medieval Literature 
• Jacobean Theatre 
• Augustan Satire 
• Literature & Psychoanalysis 
• Modern Theatre 
• Australian Literature & Film 

French:

• Women & Love in the Renaissance 
• Literature & Enlightenment in the French 18th Century 
• Writing & Politics 
• Twentieth-century Women's Writing 
• Introduction to Francophone African Literatures 

German:

• Heinrich Heine 
• Modernism & the Avant-Garde 
• Economic Thought & Literature 

Italian:

• Post-War Italian Cinema (at Royal Holloway, University of London)
• Opera & Operatic Culture in Italy (at Royal Holloway, University of London)
• Art & Literature in Renaissance Florence (at Royal Holloway, University of London)

Portuguese & Brazilian Studies:

• Portuguese Erotic Poetics: Medieval to Modern 

Spanish:

• After Franco: Films & Texts of the Transition 
• Perceptions of Modernity: Spanish America 1800-1920 
• Cervantes' Don Quijote 
• Goya & the Dream of Reason

Film Studies:

• American Underground Cinema or American Independent Cinema
• Film & Trans-nationalism
• Film Genre, Style & Ideology
• Film Noir or The European Crime Film
• Representation & Identity in Film
• Stardom & Performance
• Third Cinema & Beyond